Sentence examples for steady settlement from inspiring English sources

Amr Moussa had no doubt that Israel's assault on Gaza a year ago was an "act of aggression," and that its steady settlement expansion was destroying the possibility of a two-state solution.

With extremely high birth rates, low death rates, and steady settlement, the colonial population grew rapidly.

It has been calculated that more than one million immigrants who have arrived in the last ten years have, at present, steady settlement [ 1].

With aerial photography, Peace Now has tracked the steady growth of settlements.

It is this conviction that lies behind the steady expansion of settlements in the West Bank, where some 350,000 Jews now live, with another 250,000 in annexed East Jerusalem.

In four hundred-plus pages, there is almost no mention of the changes that have transformed the Israeli polity in the past six decades, and surprisingly little discussion of the steady growth in the settlement population, which now exceeds half a million.

The Vatican's recognition of Palestine does little to change the facts on the ground — which include the steady expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the collapse of talks between the Netanyahu and Abbas camps.

This solution is under attack from the steady expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's belief that the conflict should now be accepted as "insoluble".

Specifically, the steady, inexorable expansion of settlements and the persistence of what has become an almost 50-year occupation of another people is slowly eroding and degrading the sense of shared values that binds Americans to Israelis.

Despite the steady southward progression of Chinese settlement, the exposed deltaic position of the area retarded its economic growth.

The area devoted to farmland and settlement showed a steady expansion by about 33.44% (370.3 ha/year) in this third period of analysis.